The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27

lawyer in Albion, Micb. Her fir
case was for q railroad co1duc {
against a rich corporation, and sh
won il. She is now prosecuting
S25, 600 dam age suit against the Cel
trail Pacific railroad.
In the Massachusetts, Legislature Ia
votes aad pairs on the woman sufffag
bill for the last four years hsve STOOD
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Mrs. MARY +. HAeaART made a.
eloquent plea for woman suffrage be
fore a recent mass meeting of work
il gmen in Indianapolis. She pre-
dicted that humsoity as a who p, no
humanity as half, would before m IN,
decades solve the problem of hu
manity.
So THE women don't care to vote
eh? The municipal registration list
in Kaus.s Sem to indicate that il tn,
privilege is q burden, they bear ii will
remarkably cheerful fortitude. NJ
newspaper needs to urge them tt
"Rsgis er! Re1isterl" Their names
are goipg on the voting lists by thou
sands. Boston Globe.
MRS. HRTTY GREEN, the richest wo
man in America, lately visited Chi
csgo. While she was going over @
building that belongs to her, the JAM.
tor, not knowing her, became suspi.
cious of the way she pried about aud
ordered her to leave. She was go
pleased with the mans vigilance that
she raised his wages.
MI 8 HELEN LENoIR, the manager
Of Mr.. d Oyly Oarte's operate COM
panies, crossed the Atlantic in charge
Of the Ruidygore Company, and got
them settled and playing with expe-
dition and without fuss. Ia theatrical
matters, Harpsr's Bdsar says, she i,
'the leading representative of the ad-
ministrstive genius Of her SEX"
Mas. E. PUTNAM HRAToN, OF the
Brooklyn Times, has been weighing
the dresses at fashionable modists's,
to find the average weight OF a
woman's gown. she found that Jet
trimmed reception dres go weighed
from thirty-iour TO forty-piue pounds,
plain walking d esses from twelve to
nineteen. Nothing was found that
weighed less than tea pounds.
IT ia said that women's voting would
promote dissensions in families; that
husband aud wife would quarrel over
every election. Is that the way men
go to work now to get votes? No; We
are very friendly with our uplifte rs
and upho'ders, We are more polite to
our "hai d." even, on cleo ion day.
Then why is it not a supposable case
that the married pair may grow ex-
kind when that oceasit n
draws nighP
Miss MARIETTA HoLLEY, the author
of Josiah Aliens Wife. ,SWest Cicely, and
other works in which the time hon.
ored arguments against woman suf-
frage are made laughable, has perhaps
aroused more hearty, healthful, and
bel pful mirth than anyone on the
continent, with the exception Of Mark
Twain. She is described as large and
fine locking, with handsome dark
eyes, and face expressing hum0r and
full OF peace and Content; warm
hearted, IL affected entertaining
woman.
TdB Pail Mall Gazette has invited its
readers to imagine themselves Dante,
and to people Paradise, PJ'satory anu
the Inferno with Englivh men snd
women of this century. N"Oniness"
Gordon had the largest number OF
votes for Paradise. Next TO him, but
receiving only half as many votes,
came Gladstone. -Four womsn's
names appear among the first thirteen
nightingale, Queen Vic
toria, "Sitter Dora" ind Mrs. joe.
phine p. Butler. Mre. Butler, Cardinal
Newman aud lord B.aconsfi I'D re.
ceived the same number Of votes.
TWENTY SEVEN years ago Henry
Ward Be cher, in powerful lecture
On woman suffrage, predicted that one
Of the first good results OF the reform
would be the removal Of the polling
place. to more respeCt be qlart6rs,
and the increased order snd Clvility of
elections. Tie Republican Oonven.
ion, which met at Topeka, Kas on
March 7tb, expressed cordial well
come to the newly enfranchised ladies'
md adopted series Of rsso ufions, en-
titled "For the New Voters" favoring
.afety and convenience of voters at the
polls, and recommending their re-
noval to more respectable locations.
JUDGE EDWARDS PIERRRPoNT has
ust got back from France, where he
vent to arrange the marrisge satt g.
nents of a, American woman, worth
Ieveral millions, who was 10 marry a
French marquis. Judge Pierrepont
Iays "The power which the French
aw gives to husband over his wife,
when there are Eo ante-nuptisl limita.
ions, can almost be compared to the
power OF the Southern stakeholder
,ver his slave. The French husband
,annot sell his wife, but with that ex-
eption he has almost unbounded cou-
rol over her liberty and her prop
,rty."
The large numbers in which women
ire registering to vote under the new
suffrage law in Kansas
,ught to set at rest the fear that women
would not use the suff,age il they had
t. The women voted at the primary
elections on March 9th, and there was
lot the slightest disturbance. One
housand Of the leading women of
Iesvenworth registered in two days.
But the municipal suffrage bill in
Kansas was fought, up 10 the last mo-
nent, with the assertion that women
lid not want to vote. The handful of
aides who sent in a remonstrance
rom Independence ware Just rs sure
hat they represented "the vast major
ty" OF Kansas women as the handful
If ladies who have demonstrated else
where are that they represent the vast
Majority in their reanAciiya States.